Crossword-Solution: GIRRU 5 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Gibil.--One of the names of the god of fire, sometimes transcribed Girru by Assyriologists, the meaning apparently being "the fire-bearer" or "light-bearer." Girru is another name of this deity, and translates an ideographic group, rendered by Delitzsch "great" or "highest decider," suggesting the custom of trial by ordeal.

The hymns to the fire-god, Nusku (or Girru), of which the 'Maklu' series naturally furnishes many specimens,[398] are all pretty much alike.

The sign for _girru_, also used for _ḫarrânu_, a “journey,” came in later times to be used for all kinds of business transactions.

There is little doubt that in early times this was read _girru_, when denoting “business,” undertaken in association.

That both _ḫarrânu_ and _girru_ are used as words for “way,” “journey,” “expedition,” may well point to the prominence of the idea of trade journeys with caravans.